SOCIAL JUSTICE: "the forced redistribution of wealth, with a hostility to individual property, under the guise of charity and/or justice." Glenn Beck

Social Justice entails a "forced" property redistribution?


Social Justice contemplates a "hostility" to individual property ownership?


Sure but only if, like Glenn Beck, you just make it up as you go along.
   


Compare the Beck nonsense with Pope Benedict XVI (Caritas in Veritate) - one of the most militantly conservative recent Popes: 


"It must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution."


(Both quoted by Jim Wallis, Huffington Post, March 24 2010)

Pope Benedict XVI: "Many of you found that, when you were courageous enough to speak of what happened to you, no one would listen."

Confronting a sex abuse scandal spreading across Europe,  Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday apologized directly to victims and their families in Ireland, expressing “shame and remorse” and saying “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.  . . .  Many of you found that, when you were courageous enough to speak of what happened to you, no one would listen." . . . 

In 2001 the Vatican issued a directive by Benedict, then a cardinal, reiterating a strict requirement for secrecy in handling abuse cases. The directive also gave the authority in handling such cases to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Benedict was prefect of the congregation from 1982 until becoming pope in 2005.

NY TIMES, March 20, 2010
by Rachel Donadio and Alan Cowell